Hi Pete. Really sorry to hear you are having so much trouble with your Kind Soil girls. I'm no expert by any means but I'll explain my watering method. When you water do you water and get run off? What is your source? What I did was find exactly the amount of water to give just before I would get any run off. For me with a two and a half gallon pot, that turned out to be 7 cups. Even a half a cup more and I would start to get run off. My goal in watering was to never have any run off. I figured any runoff would be washing out valuable nutrients from the Kind Soil. In the seedling stage I watered only about a cup or so and increased that amount as she got bigger. I don't think I even made the bottom of the pot wet in the first week or so once sprouted. Once she was established I thought her roots were probably hitting the Kind Soil, I watered every three days that exact same amount of 7 cups. Now that she is a big girl I am watering that same amount every two days. I am certainly lucky to have found a water source that has a solid 6.5 pH in the Poland Spring water I buy in 5 gallon jugs. I got one of those ceramic dispensers so we could use it for our drinking water too. I also prepared myself with Earth Juice crystals before I started this grow and they are certainly some powerful stuff. A little goes a long, long way. Just experimenting with my tap water which has a pH of around 8, anything more that just the smallest pinch of the crystals would send the pH down into the 4's when applied to that same 7 cups of water. I decided to not use my tap water because I tested for chloramines and found that they existed in my tap and there's no way to bubble them out. My tap is also very hard with a 400 or so PPM level which I don't think is really a problem. My gal would droop a lot in the veg stage right before lights out and during the whole 6 hour dark period until just before the lights would come back on and then she would start to wake up expecting the soon to come light. I've experienced this what I call a sleep/wake cycle in my previous grows in hydro too. I mention it because if I opened my tent in the middle of a dark period and saw that and didn't know it was normal I would have thought she was either reacting to being either over or under watered. Forgive the long ramble but maybe there's something helpful here as so often the devil is in that one small detail.
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